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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wishful Thinking (2010) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wishful Thinking (2010)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010).

About the movie: Samantha borrowed $100,000 from an occultist loan shark to finance her student horror flick. Unfortunately she had no intention of paying back the money...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		The argument between Roland and Lucifer at the end of the film where Roland speaks English and Lucifer speaks French was completely improvised despite the fact that the actor playing Roland cant speak a word of French. However, when the dialog is translated the conversation flows quite naturally.
b.		Producer Irving Thalberg would often call people in for meetings, and then keep them waiting in his office for hours while he attended other meetings on the MGM lot. One day, during pre-production for A Night at the Opera, Thalberg kept The Marx Brothers waiting for several hours in his secretarys office, while he was in his own office making phone calls. When Thalbergs secretary went home for the day, the brothers decided theyd had enough. They pushed the office file cabinets against Thalbergs door, trapping the producer in his office. Afterwards, Thalberg kept his appointments with the Marx Brothers, but would often interrupt his meetings with them and step out to attend other meetings - again keeping the brothers waiting for hours. One day, Thalberg came back from another meeting to find Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx sitting in his office completely naked, and roasting potatoes on sticks in his office fireplace. Thalberg sat down with them, had a potato, and never missed or interrupted another meeting with the Marx Brothers.
c.		Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gales Oscar-nominated screenplay was actually written just after theyd made Used Cars.
d.		Bills hard "New Yok" accent wasnt entirely fabricated. Martin Scorsese actually did some research by listening to a voice recording of Walt Whitman and by reading an old play in which the dialog was spelled out phonetically.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		Jay Baruchels hairstyle and eyeglasses are meant to evoke George Lucas appearance in the 1970s.
b.		Jean-Claude Van Damme was another consideration for a villain in this film.
c.		Film debut of Norman Lloyd.
d.		When trying to finalize Lucifers costume design, it was suggested that she needed to look like shes in a hated profession..." like shes a normal person just doing an evil job." Lucifers final costume was made to resemble a cross between a uniformed bank teller and a realtor.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		Some army troops used were from the 29th Division (Maryland Army National Guard), known as "The Blue and the Gray" from their yin-yang looking shoulder patch (visible when the day convoy went by the Ferriers and the son was getting splashed).
b.		One of the songs that the Ewoks sing sounds like: "Det luktar flingor här", which is Swedish for "It smells of cereal here." (In fact, that lines lyrics are supposedly, "Gnoop dock fling oh ah.") Another song sounds identical to a song sung in Caveman.
c.		The character of Jim the loanshark was originally scripted to run his criminal operation out of the back of a tobacco store in Asheville, NC. The role had to be recast when the actor playing Jim decided the character was so despicable that he couldnt even begin to think of how to portray him. The tobacco store location became unavailable and Jims office was changed to be a corner of the basement seen in a great deal of the rest of the film, with black sheets hung on the walls to create a "nebulous black space."
d.		An early draft of the script had Dr. Janet Wallace (Sarah Marshall) from the original series episode "The Deadly Years" as Kirks long-lost lover in the role that eventually became Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch).

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		The hotel room, the interior of the elevator and the interior of the cab(s) in the final shot were shot on a sound stage in Culver City, CA.
b.		The film was shot on location in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, the District of Colombia and California. While shooting on the national mall in D.C. near the Washington Monument, the President of the United States motorcade passed along an adjacent street, resulting in the crew having to hide in a public bathroom facility for nearly half an hour while Uniformed Secret Service patrolled the area on motorcycles.
c.		While Dennis Dun and Victor Wong worked together with John Carpenter on Big Trouble in Little China, Donald Pleasence worked with Carpenter on Halloween and Escape from New York. It was the first time Peter Jason worked with Carpenter and would later work together on They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., and Ghosts of Mars.
d.		Filmed partially at the University of North Carolina. Robin Williams did stand up comedy for some classes that were in session while filming.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		The first unit only actually shot for three months. The second unit shot off and on for the next twelve months and in that time re-shot over 3/4 of the original photography, in most of the same locations.
b.		Director John Berry and co-scripter Hugo Butlers names were removed from the credits for a time after release, due to the blacklisting of supposed Communist sympathizers at the time. Assistant director Emmett Emerson is thus often credited as the films director.
c.		Despite the fact that there is nudity in this film, it was passed by censors of that time because it dealt with Christianity, as it was originating.
d.		The word "fuck" and its derivatives are used a total of 246 times.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		Susan Orlean was at first concerned that some people would think her portrayal in the film was accurate, but was then reminded how Charlie Kaufman portrays himself in the film.
b.		There is a scene in the movie (near a canal) that was filmed behind what was later known as the The Amityville Horror house.
c.		Charles Bronson was about sixty-one years of age when he appeared in this movie.
d.		Matt Barr, who plays the film instructor, actually taught film production to this movies director and one of its producers. The film he mentions in his scene as an example to the class for their budgeting guidelines was actually the final project the director and producer made for Matt Barrs film production 1 course the previous year.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		The futuristic turntable that appeared in the movie is a Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference turntable. Stanley Kubrick found this turntable when visiting neighbouring Borehamwood company J.A. Michell Engineering, who made the spacecraft models for 2001: A Space Odyssey. When shortly after Transcriptors moved to Ireland, J.A. Michell Engineering continued the production of the Hydraulic Reference turntable, as well as other new models. In 2005 Michell Engineering launched the limited-edition Odyssey turntable.
b.		In the Special Edition DVD Documentary, Estelle Parsons says she was the only member of the cast who actually researched the history of the Barrow Gang. She also says that early in the filming, she wanted to meet the real Blanche Barrow but Warren Beatty, in his capacity as the producer, was against the idea. Finally, after a week, Warren relented and set up a meeting with Blanche, but at that point Parsons lost interest and never met Blanche. In fact, Warren Beatty brought the script to Blanche for her to read for her approval before she would give permission to use her name. She agreed the script was factual and approved it. While there he played her piano and sang for her. She was very fond of Warren even though the director completely changed the script to make her look as in her own words, "A screaming Horses Ass." She took her third husband Eddie to see the movie with her for the first time and nearly died of embarrassment.
c.		Delias main costume is a dress by ELM Design of Iceland. She was originally scripted to be wearing "trashy high heels," but the change was made after the films original producers decided it was a safety risk to have an actress running in high heels as much as the character was scripted to.
d.		Among the ideas planned in the film, but not used, included: - A spoof of the musical "Lady in the Dark" with Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Fred Astaire. - A minstrel number with Garland, Rooney, Astaire, Lou Holtz and Nancy Walker. - An "Album of Familiar Songs" medley with Garland, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Lena Horne, and Kathryn Grayson. - A "Firehouse Chat," a sketch with Garland, Lucille Ball and Ann Sothern. - "Reading of the Play," a sketch with Garland and Frank Morgan. - "Its Getting Hot in Tahiti" (music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane) with Garland. - A "Fairy Tale" sketch with Katharine Hepburn, Margaret OBrien and Jackie Butch Jenkins. - "Ive Got Those Rooney/Pidgeon/Skelton Blues" with Garland, Ball and Greer Garson (in a number theyd concocted on a war bond train) moaning about their frequent co-stars. - "Pass That Peace Pipe" (music and lyrics by Martin, Blane and Roger Edens) with Garland, Rooney, Ball, Walker, June Allyson, Gene Kelly and Charles Walters (The song was later given to Joan McCracken by Walters when he directed Good News.) - "Sand," a sketch with Garland and Astaire in blackface. - "Childrens Park" with various MGM stars (including Hepburn, Garland, Walter Pidgeon, Basil Rathbone, Tom Drake and Esther Williams) riding on swings. - "I Love You More In Technicolor Than I Do In Black and White" (music and lyrics by Martin and Blane) with Garland turning down dates from John Hodiak, Van Johnson and James Craig to rekindle with Rooney. (This routine had to be dropped when Rooney entered the Army.) - James Melton suggested he should do a number with either Garland or Grayson.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		The film was originally written with the concept that every single shot would be filmed by a character in the film.
b.		Marc Forster chose to film in the Atacama Desert, the Cerro Paranal Observatory and the Observatorys ESO Hotel to represent Bonds rigid emotions.
c.		The first unit shot a scene taking place at the top of the 400 tall Gatlinburg Space Needle, using a 400mm lens from the side of an adjacent mountain on the other side of the valley. The second unit had to return nearly a year later and replicate the same shot to match continuity for coverage that was retained from the first unit. They got the shot on the first try, and a severe thunderstorm moved into the area, shutting down production for the rest of the day.
d.		Although the onscreen credits list the writing source as a novel, no record of its publication has been found.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		First cinema feature of Felicity Huffman.
b.		During the scenes in Ansons basement, sheets can be seen hanging behind the area where the actors are sitting. Several members of the cast and crew were unaware that there was an individual living on an air mattress positioned behind the sheets who was present for most of the scenes that were shot there. There was also an individual living in the dirt floor root cellar beside the stairs that Anson uses to enter the basement who was silently present for most of the filming in that location.
c.		Olivia Thirlby originally auditioned for the lead but was eventually cast as "Leah".
d.		Rose (Marilyn Monroe)s walk across some cobblestones holds the record for the longest walk in cinema history - 116 feet of film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wishful Thinking (2010)?
a.		In the DVD "making-of" documentary, there is archival behind the scenes footage of tests for make-up, costumes, and sets. Among the footage shown is an early screen test for Persis Khambatta as Lieutenant Ilia. In the test, she is wearing a female uniform from the original TV series: A gold one-piece mini-skirt dress with a Lieutenant stripe, black pantyhose, and black boots. This is due to the fact that it was her screen test for the aborted "Star Trek - Phase II" series, which was going to re-use the "Original Series" costume designs.
b.		Helen paraphrases Thomas Wolfe "You can never go home again," a reference to one of his novels, You Cant Go Home Again (1940).
c.		Shot in 1983, not released until 1987.
d.		The first unit photography was captured with a Sony PMW-EX3, and the second unit was shot with a Canon 7D. More work went into color grading the final film to match between the two cameras than went into assembling the films 3675 individual shots into a final edited sequence.